SGS
Overview
Make an impact with SGS! Our Sales team makes a difference in the lives of our customers, colleagues and community. SGS works to ensure the health and safety of our environment and community as a key partner in the cleanup of contaminated sites, ensuring we all have safe drinking water and helping clients minimize their impact on the environment.
SGS is the world's leading Testing, Inspection and Certification company. We operate a network of over 2,700 laboratories and business facilities across 119 countries, supported by a team of 99,250 dedicated professionals. With over 145 years of service excellence, we combine the precision and accuracy that define Swiss companies to help organizations achieve the highest standards of quality, safety and compliance. Our brand promise, when you need to be sure, underscores our commitment to reliability, integrity and trust — enabling businesses to thrive with confidence. We proudly deliver our expert services through the SGS name and trusted specialized brands, including Brightsight, Bluesign, Maine Pointe and Nutrasource. SGS is publicly traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker symbol SGSN (ISIN CH0002497458, Reuters SGSN.S, Bloomberg SGSN:SW).
Responsibilities
Identifies business leads with existing and potential customers through continuous interaction across the Environmental community.
Proactively seeks out, intelligently targets and initiates contact with prospective customers to assess potential leads.
Develops a network of industry contacts and continually qualifies market conditions.
Through active probing and listening, conducts discovery sessions with qualified leads to identify client needs and determine potential opportunities for the full scope of offerings.
Assesses client needs against capabilities of SGS.
Works closely with prospects to develop a value proposition and determine how SGS services will help them achieve their goals.
Influences and promotes the expansion or establishment of business opportunities through partnering relationships with potential customers and coordinated efforts with other SGS business lines.
Secures closure on all proposals to new and existing clients and effectively hand over the contract to the Client Services Team.
Communicates sales process activities reports to update businesses internally. Use of CRM with agreed upon KPI (Key Performance Indicators).
Provides market intelligence to the Business Development Manager and Operations Manager to assist in developing sales materials, plans, budgets and forecasts.
Presents and represents SGS at tradeshows and technical seminars to build SGS brand awareness and broaden the market and client base.
Acts as the customer's advocate in interactions with the SGS organization to ensure the customer obtains the best value from the SGS offerings.
Sets appropriate customer expectations on SGS product and service offerings.
Represents SGS professionally and ethically in the marketplace.
Continually develops personal selling skills, acquires industry knowledge, broadens expertise in environmental service offerings and applies them.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; Chemistry, Biology, Environmental science (Required)
5 years in technical sales, project management, or customer service experience (Required)
5 years’ experience in the Environmental Industry (Preferred)
Excellent oral and written communications skills to build strong customer relationships as well as work effectively and collaborate internally (Required)
Strong leadership, self-initiative, resource utilization (Required)
Solid critical thinking skills to anticipate and solve problems in a systematic manner (Required)
Advanced English language skills (Required)
Advanced reasoning and mathematical skills (Required)
Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) (Required)
Additional Information SGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such we recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristics protected by law.
Job Details
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Industries: Retail; Office Equipment; Consumer Services; Oil and Gas
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SGS is the world's leading Testing, Inspection and Certification company. We operate a network of over 2,700 laboratories and business facilities across 119 countries, supported by a team of 99,250 dedicated professionals. With over 145 years of service excellence, we combine the precision and accuracy that define Swiss companies to help organizations achieve the highest standards of quality, safety and compliance. Our brand promise, when you need to be sure, underscores our commitment to reliability, integrity and trust — enabling businesses to thrive with confidence. We proudly deliver our expert services through the SGS name and trusted specialized brands, including Brightsight, Bluesign, Maine Pointe and Nutrasource. SGS is publicly traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker symbol SGSN (ISIN CH0002497458, Reuters SGSN.S, Bloomberg SGSN:SW).
Responsibilities
Identifies business leads with existing and potential customers through continuous interaction across the Environmental community.
Proactively seeks out, intelligently targets and initiates contact with prospective customers to assess potential leads.
Develops a network of industry contacts and continually qualifies market conditions.
Through active probing and listening, conducts discovery sessions with qualified leads to identify client needs and determine potential opportunities for the full scope of offerings.
Assesses client needs against capabilities of SGS.
Works closely with prospects to develop a value proposition and determine how SGS services will help them achieve their goals.
Influences and promotes the expansion or establishment of business opportunities through partnering relationships with potential customers and coordinated efforts with other SGS business lines.
Secures closure on all proposals to new and existing clients and effectively hand over the contract to the Client Services Team.
Communicates sales process activities reports to update businesses internally. Use of CRM with agreed upon KPI (Key Performance Indicators).
Provides market intelligence to the Business Development Manager and Operations Manager to assist in developing sales materials, plans, budgets and forecasts.
Presents and represents SGS at tradeshows and technical seminars to build SGS brand awareness and broaden the market and client base.
Acts as the customer's advocate in interactions with the SGS organization to ensure the customer obtains the best value from the SGS offerings.
Sets appropriate customer expectations on SGS product and service offerings.
Represents SGS professionally and ethically in the marketplace.
Continually develops personal selling skills, acquires industry knowledge, broadens expertise in environmental service offerings and applies them.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; Chemistry, Biology, Environmental science (Required)
5 years in technical sales, project management, or customer service experience (Required)
5 years’ experience in the Environmental Industry (Preferred)
Excellent oral and written communications skills to build strong customer relationships as well as work effectively and collaborate internally (Required)
Strong leadership, self-initiative, resource utilization (Required)
Solid critical thinking skills to anticipate and solve problems in a systematic manner (Required)
Advanced English language skills (Required)
Advanced reasoning and mathematical skills (Required)
Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) (Required)
Additional Information SGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such we recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristics protected by law.
Job Details
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Industries: Retail; Office Equipment; Consumer Services; Oil and Gas
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